An Analysis of Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author

Laura Seymour

An Analysis of Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Macat International Limited
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 May 2018
Pages
88
ISBN
9781912453511

An Analysis of Roland Barthes’s The Death of the Author

Laura Seymour

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, The Death of the Author, argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text. Hailing the birth of the reader, Barthes posits a new abstract notion of the reader as the conceptual space containing all the text’s possible meanings. The essay has become one of the most cited works in literary criticism and is a key text for any reader approaching reader response theory.

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